Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier

Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (6 August 1840-18 March 1914) was a Swiss-American archaeologist who explored the indigenous cultures of the Americas.

Biography
Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier was born in Bern, Switzerland in 1840, and his family immigrated to the Swiss immigrant community of Highland, Illinois, while he was young. He was unhappy with his family business, and he instead became an anthropologist, undertaking archaeological and ethnological work among the Native Americans of the American Southwest, Mexico, and South America. In 1892, he left the Southwest to study in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru, and he showed the falsity of various historical myths, especially regarding the Inca. Bandelier died in Seville, Spain in 1914, and Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico was dedicated to him in 1916 by President Woodrow Wilson.